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Ptolemy's rebellion against Caesar and Cleopatra came a week later, when Caesar and Cleopatra had occupied Alexandria, and Ptolemy led all the armies of the kingdom to resist Caesar, and the two sides fought on the plains outside Alexandria.

When political contradictions cannot be resolved, the only way to resolve them is to wage war and resolve them by force.

The centurions were in front of the phalanx on the right, commanding their squads and having the soldiers check the last of their weaponry. The polished Pirus heavy spears reflected a dazzling glow in the scorching sun. The legion is ironclad and neatly formed, with a clear banner, a heavy war machine of the ancient Western world. Appis sighed with emotion, commanding his three centurians to the front row of the queue. The Roman hoplites in the first platoon were always the main force of the Roman legionary phalanx, the position of the chief centurion.

"Forward."

And as a majestic trumpet of general attack sounded, three Roman legions, lined up in a neat phalanx, began to rush towards Ptolemy's Egyptian coalition army. Appis stood in the middle of the phalanx, like a hundred-man commander, fully armed, dagger in hand, ready to command his hundred-man squad to engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. But before that, you must withstand at least one round of bow and arrow fire from the enemy. This is the scene of countless battles between the Romans and the foreigners, and the Roman phalanx is close to the battle and the assassination wins, while many of the foreigners have powerful ranged troops. The army of Ptolemaic in Egypt was no exception.

The legions trampled the earth, and the sand and dust flew like the footsteps of giants, step by step, heavy on the positions of the Ptolemaic Egyptian army.

On the other hand, Ptolemy XIII adopted the phalanx tactics handed down from his ancestors, the classic tactics of the Macedonian phalanx, relying on the frontal spear phalanx to drag the opponent, and the flanks to attack the enemy with cavalry or chariots, resulting in the enemy's rout. However, this was a tactic of hundreds of years ago, and during the Second Punic War, the war giant Hannibal said that the tactics of rigid phalanx defense have been obsolete by the times, and the era of motorized infantry has arrived. And at this moment, the ancient kingdom on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea is still using this tactic.

Ptolemy's general, Thutmose, placed three columns of Macedonian phalanx in front of the legion, and the rest of the light infantry, slingers, spearmen and archers behind the Macedonian phalanx, rushed to the front of the phalanx before the battle to throw stones and bows, and the cavalry and three hundred archers and chariots were arranged on both flanks, ready to break the Roman phalanx through the onslaught of cavalry and chariots.

But before the war, Caesar also arranged and arranged his legions, drew a quarter of the troops from the central phalanx, arranged them on both wings, expanded the number of the phalanx on both wings, strengthened the density of the various brigades on the flanks, but kept the number of people in the first row of frontal lines unchanged, so that the entire Roman legion phalanx, from the front, the number of people on the middle line and the two flanks is the same, but if you climb to the highest point of the battlefield and overlook the entire battlefield, you will find that the Roman legion position, In fact, the population density of the two flanks is much higher than that of the mid lane phalanx. Caesar knew the tactics of Ptolemy's army, and after the battle, the flank was the key to the decisive victory of the entire battlefield, but unfortunately, the whole battlefield did not have the so-called commanding heights, because the terrain outside Alexandria was almost a flat sandy plain, not only Caesar could not see his army formation, but Ptolemy could not see it. So, everything unfolds in a seemingly ordinary march. An ordinary battle that is also destined to be extraordinary.

War, the tide of war. At the moment of surging blood, Apis stood in the center of the phalanx, looked at the rain of arrows flying in the sky, and ordered all the soldiers to put their shields above their heads to form the famous "tortoiseshell formation" defense.

There was a sense of déjà vu of the son of Rome, and when the overwhelming rain of arrows came, Apis, along with all the legionary infantry, hid under the thick shield wall, feeling the stormy rain of arrows from the Egyptian archers.

The carpet bombardment of the rain of arrows lasted for at least ten seconds, and from time to time unlucky Roman soldiers fell under the rain of arrows falling from the sky, but after a short violent storm, the entire Roman legion phalanx stood up again, compared to the fallen soldiers, the entire phalanx can be said to be unscathed. The legionary infantry continued to advance in a high-pitched morale, maintaining an intact tortoiseshell formation, and a large number of arrows continued to smash above the shield wall, but did not cause any substantial damage to the phalanx of the three legions.

As the vast phalanx of legions approached Ptolemy's ranged troops, the improvised desert slingers and archers began to panic as they tried to fire the last round of arrows and stone projectiles, but the Roman phalanx was so close that many feared that they would not be shot by the javelins of the Roman heavy infantry, and had to retreat to the rear of the phalanx.

"Stay in formation and get ready for battle!"

Finally, the legion was close enough to the Ptolemaic Macedonian phalanx, and at this time, the commander-in-chief of Ptolemy XIII's phalanx, Cambinut, shouted, and behind him, hundreds of phalanx infantry armed with spears and shields gradually raised their spirits to a high state of tension, and their spears were aimed directly at the direction of the Roman legions.

However, what happened next was to everyone's surprise, and the huge Roman legion stopped when it was within a hundred paces of the Macedonian phalanx. In the originally dense phalanx front, countless Roman lightly armed long-range troops armed with bows and arrows, spears and slings suddenly poured out.

In a very short time, the lightly armed troops had taken up the forward positions of the Roman heavy infantry phalanx, and now, in front of them, was the unhindered Ptolemaic Macedonian phalanx.

"Cover!"

Suddenly, the commander of the main phalanx of Ptolemaic troops, Cambinut, understood what was going on, Caesar's tactics of fighting were always unconventional, and when Cambinut reacted, it was too late, and those Roman lightly armed troops threw a dense rain of stone bullets and arrows in front of the Macedonian phalanx.

Although the spear phalanx left over from Alexander's period tended to be perfect in frontal combat, the phalanx's ability to defend against long-range attacks was almost nil. Due to the length of the spear, the soldiers in the back row can only hold the spear in both hands, and lack the defense of the shield, even the infantry in the front row only has a small round shield to defend themselves, while the infantry of the Roman legions, each with a large Latin shield for self-defense, the gap between the two is huge, when Ptolemy's long-range troops were dispersed, its main phalanx was unexpectedly exposed to the long-range attacks of the Roman legionary slingers and archers.

The phalanx commander shouted, but countless dense projectiles and arrows had already spilled into the main phalanx of Ptolemy, and those stone projectiles that whizzed into the phalanx, and many Egyptian phalanx infantry who had not yet understood what was going on were hit by the rapid flying stone projectiles, and their heads were bleeding. (To be continued.) )